A new model is presented for evaluating the performance of a Business Continuity Management System according to BS 25999. Performance is based fundamentally on the system’s Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery Plans. Typically, the performance of these plans is inadequately evaluated using a number of specific exercises at various intervals and, in many cases, with a variety of targe...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses experienced various challenges, resulting in economic decline. The pandemic also threatened their sustainability. Thus, business actors have to consider this condition seriously. This study aims analyze impact of marketing innovations and plans on sustainability during pandemic. paper used quantitative methods. population included 689 micro small enterpr...

I Introduction What is the epistemic significance of discovering that one of your beliefs depends on an irrelevant causal factor? Suppose that you have a relatively high degree of belief in some proposition. Suppose that you then come to learn that your belief was (in part) caused by an irrelevant factor, a factor that does not bear on the truth of the proposition or on your possession of evide...

This material is covered in Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Smith “Introduction to Algorithms” — Appendix C. You can also look at the lecture notes for MIT course 6.042 Mathematics for Computer Science by Lehman and Leighton on http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/∼e lehman/mathcs.pdf — Chapters 18 to 24. (See also http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/classes/6.042/spring05/) You should also take a look at Trevisan’s ...

INTRODUCTION Today’s organizations, in their efforts to reduce costs, are streamlining layers of management while implementing more complex matrices of control and reporting. Distributed systems have facilitated the reshaping of these organizations by moving the control of information closer to its source — the end user. In this transition, however, secure management of that information is plac...

Set-asides and subsidies are used extensively in government procurement and resource sales. We analyze these policies in an empirical model of US Forest Service timber auctions. The model fits the data well both within the sample of unrestricted sales used for estimation, and when we predict (out-of-sample) outcomes for small business set-asides. Our estimates suggest that restricting entry sub...

Privacy in travel refers to the way people manage their personal travel information and their willingness to share this information with others. Travel privacy concerns affect the amount and type of information people are willing to share within social networks, before or after their trip. Our study focuses on privacy and sharing concerns regarding business travel in an enterprise setting. We b...

Teaching planning and decision making in agricultural systems at universities is often theoretically with few practical examples. Regularly there are not enough possibilities to get experience in planning a whole farm business having regard to all enterprises and all kinds of farm planning (production plan, financial plan,...). Making plans of separate parts of the farm without regarding the wh...